Maybe later!

The world of 'three Sabine's'!

LOL! Hey Carolyn, just read your blog on you being able to convince your Sabine to come to your Comp! Maybe I should ask my friend Sabine to come along and they could compare 'Sabine' Stories!!! Funny! She too would take nothing to get ready for a comp either! Maybe they could do October together!!! Now that would funny!

Know what else is funny, I just discovered this year I have a cousin called Sabine the same age as me!!!!!

Every goal worth achieving DEMANDS regular and consistent efforts!

CONSISTENCY creates powerful habit; regular, patient, consistent action is necessary to acheive good results. Greatness only comes from efforts that are consistent. Daily efforts create habits and habits make it easier to make those daily efforts but it still takes hard work and the determination to follow through every single day no matter what. Even if you don't achieve all your goals and dreams, you will have at least become a great character and a person of value because you did what you planned to do on a daily basis and that, is a goal worth achieving!

Had an awesome day training yesterday! First up trained with training partner and another friend, we smashed our chests!!!!! Then back in the afternoon for 2 hours cardio. Have also managed another yoga session, but not Bikram. This one is call FIR yoga, or Hot Yoga. The studio you go into is bombarded with FRA Infrared Rays (or otherwise known as Happy Rays - and here is the gimmicky funnyside to that; supposed to 'liquidify your fat solubles so you can expel your toxins through sweating..........Yeah right!!!) Doesn't matter, just as long as I get in another yoga session, and this studio is just around the corner from work, so I can go Monday afternoons. So exercise breakdown - 4 weight sessions, 4 x 20min steady cardio, 3 60+min cardio, 1 body balance, 1 Bikram yoga and 1 Hot yoga.

Food very good, as you would expect it to be when you try to eat the same thing everyday at the same time! Consistency. Well the weight drop isn't here today, so not excited.............just same number different day!!!!!!! Bit down about it, but hey thats my body!!!!!

Well better get to work, packing up offices as we are moving just around the corner.

Have a great day and catchya lata!

Ciao!

X:D)

Building and thinking! Transform your thinking and build your transformation.

They say you should fall in love with your workout. I have taken to Bikram yoga................................man it is so hard. This saturday, I struggled more than last week and here are the factors why: The temperature was 2 degrees hotter, amazing those 2 little numbers made a huge difference in the comfort zone. I even had to recoup at one stage, as there was one floor pose that made me so nauseous, I had to take a few breaths. The other factor was that I applied myself more than the first week - as you do with any exercise, you should always aim to go harder each time. I think I drank about 4 litres of water yesterday afternoon. I am going to wear my HRM next week just to get an idea of how many calories I use. I weighed myself before I went in the studio and afterwards and lost 2.5kg in fluids in that 90mins!!!!!!!! Whoa! I can safely say I replaced it no worries at all. Had an awesome eating results as well for the weekend. I remembered to eat all my meals. I made the yummiest salad yesterday lunch with 2 soft boiled eggs, chicken breast, mixed lettuce leaf, grated raw beetroot, 1 chopped rome tomato and some thin red onion rings, dressed in balsami vinegar.

Jumped on the scales this morning, and if true, I have dropped some weight from last week, so I usually wait to mid week to see if it is the same, then I will celebrate!

This little blurb it just a reminder to myself:

Because we are humans, we think! And sometimes when we think, we relapse, but the changes we make in our lifestyles can be imbedded into our daily routine; CONSISTENCY! We must give ourselves permission to change. There are no secrets to losing weight, it takes hard work, control and CONSISTENCY! Real change will happen when learn to respect ourselves and the challenges we face reaching our goals. Take responsibility for your actions, you're grown up.

Had a fun last night, bit of a spur of the moment thing, went to a tavern I haven't been to with a bunch of friends for dinner and a bit of social natter. Meal was fantastic. I had Wagyu steak (I might add cooked to perfection) with a large mixed leaf salad dressed in a balsamic dressing. Afterwards we played pool (table is for free on a saturday night) for several hours, watched the Lions win from behind (67points) on the big screen and basically had the bar to ourselves. What a hoot, watching all the others getting drunk, trying to hit the balls on the table, some very assy shots!!!!

Did I mention that I am very sore!!! DOMS has set in from the week and also yesterday!! Ooowww! Well I had better go, getting very tired, getting in a very early night tonight. Weights and cardio first thing in the morning and a major waxing session in the afternoon after work! Rip Rip!

Ciao!

Consistency: Start small and build!

How awesome is this wallpaper! The strength is not in the 'nordic goddess' but the whole picture.

Tonight I felt I had to blog about consistency and commitment! The more consistent I am with my daily routines, small changes start to happen. What I must believe is that small changes will lead to larger results. My main task is to use consistency to get myself to change those small things to change my self image. Strength training is amazingly easy in comparison to the strength required to maintain consistency. And the discovery that being inconsistent, results in very little changes, which inturn damages your commitment to change your self image. Believe in yourself. So I say to myself : I am a person who achieves my goals, I am a person who is healthy, fit and strong, I am a person who is in control of my self image changes!

Passion: This is the cornerstone of all actions. How bad to you want it? What does your dream body look like? Can you see yourself? What will your life be like when you have it?

Growth: Changes will not happen overnight, this you have to understand, but small changes will end in very large results. So be better today than you were yesterday, tomorrow strive to be better than today!

Comfort Zone: In order to experience growth, you need to step out of your comfort zone. Prepare food in advance, write down your goals, plan ahead, spend time visualising! Accept and expect discomfort.

Gratitude: Learn to practice being grateful for who you are today and for the so called failures and challenges that appear in your path to your goals. Every failure and challenge gives you the opportunity to improve and be better tomorrow.

Become: UNSTOPPABLE "I have become Doris, the lean and sexy woman who loves healthy foods and a very active lifestyle."

Fun: Ensure you have fun while to are doing it.

Role Models: Surround yourself with inspirational people, role models who have acheived their goals. People who have taken the same journey as you and succeeded!

Moving on, So further from Saturday and Bikram Yoga. Monday I felt revitalised. Definately going back next saturday to do some more hot yoga - I am so hooked on the hardness of it. Also have a powerwalk planned before we go. Did weights and cardio first thing Monday, long day at work afterwards. Tuesday, did cardio in morning, weights and cardio in the afternoon. Wednesday, did weights and cardio. Thursday, have cardio in the morning, cardio in afternoon and body balance (now that I can do back arches and boat poses, way more challenging!). Friday, have weights and cardio. Then I think that just wraps my week up for exercise. Food has been strong, but then it always is during the week. Weekend I have to ensure I eat all my meals, that is my goal this week.

Well have a great week of whats left, will no doubt talk to you all later.

Ciao!

X:D)

Hot! Hot! Hot!

OMG! Let me tell you that Bikram "Hot" Yoga is not that easy!!! First you have to get used to the incredible steamy heat of 37.4-40.5 degree heat. Then the nauseous feelings you get every now and then throughout the entire 90mins of this yoga class, not to mention the sweat!!!! It literally just pours off you. The 26 poses each having many benefits to all parts of your body. I am a pretty strong person, and can hold my own in a hour boxing class, have done a 10km run, done a 2 hour spinning class, almost gave up half way through this class, not for the poses but for the heat. Currently my abdominals are a little sore at the moment. But after all that, I will go do it again next week. I love the fact that it is so hard. I had a 21st birthday party to go to last night and I did not make it to 12 midnight. My feet felt like they were going to fall off.

This pose you see in the picture is called the 'bow pulling pose' and I can do that!! I even discovered I can do the 'boat pose but they call it the 'floor bow pose'. Interesting in Body Balance on thursday night I also discovered I can do the back arch - where rise up on your feet and hands, arching your back, but you are facing the ceiling.

I had a great Friday afternoon, had half day off, caught up with some ladies who I haven't seen in the last 3 months. Then went for my saturday morning powerwalk on Friday afternoon, as I was doing Bikram Yoga at 10.00am Saturday morning. Yesterday was a great day, as I planned and remembered to eat my designated meals and drink my water (well the yoga helped there, I am sure I sweated 2 litres out but replaced it with about 5 litres of water) At the party I was very very good, ate before I went, did not touch a single morsel of food, had 2 glasses of Sangria (which was my recipe - Red wine, vodka, orange juice, lime, lemons and oranges chopped), then about 2 litres of water. Lucky the party was only 2 doors down, so I was able to just escape and go home without having to drive the hubby home (who got home around 2.30am!).

My tummy is a little upset this morning - I am thinking as I have not had alcohol in a long time, the sangria is not agreeing with me. Off to get a pedicure and my hair cut today, didn't have enuf time yesterday. Then home again to spend the afternoon making and baking protein meals, grating, chopping, clicing and dicing salad ingredients, generally preparing my weeks worth of foods. So have a great weekend of whats left and catch you all later.

Ciao!

X:D)

Don't be content to wait and see what will happen, but be determined to make the right thing happen!

Hey there,
So far excellant days!!!!!!!!
I was reading Craig Harper's blog yesterday and he hit a few home truths! The first step really is a bit of a nail biter for me! "Do a stocktake".
I see things that I am not happy with but don't upset the apple cart because it is just rolling along, without hurting anyone! I am actually going to keep a private journal on this and hopefully I can identify problems that I should fix! and I don't just mean my physical appearance. I am talking work life, home life, finances.
So what else is new (note the change of topic - avoidance!)
I am going to do Bikram Yoga on the weekend, first time for me. I just luv my body balance on a Thursday night and it has some yoga moves in it. Bikram is the yoga that is done in heated conditions - the studio I am going to is 37 degrees, but if you were to go to the Yoga College's and other studio's, they are heated to 40.5 degrees. The idea is that your muscles and tendons are statically heated (no physical warmup) and should open up more, allow more flexibility and range of movement. They warn you not to eat up to 2 hours before you do the class, as it is a bit like a detox session at a dayspa or a hour long sports massage, when you stand up you feel giddy and nauseous. This is because of the movement of your cellular fluids.
I downloaded the 26 poses we do, and OMG I don't think I can bend that way on some of the poses. The people in the pictures are very very very very very flexible!!!!!

Anyway I am off to balance tonight, tight in shoulders , but particularly sore in legs - not looking forward to the leg strength track!!! Oww! I'll say that now as i now what it is going to be like.
Have a great night guys!
Ciao!
X:D)

Discipline is remembering what you want!

Ahhh! Discipline! Remembering!

Well long time not to blog! I had a mishap over the weekend that was so wrong! Now lets go back almost a week. Friday was a good day, did a great workout on legs, my usual cardio to finish. Saturday I thought i was going to miss out on my long powerwalk, but did it in afternoon. Saturaday was my bad day!!!! Bad as in I did not eat!!! Go figure, where is my head at? Oh don't worry I have been lectured to the hilt over it and told "no brainer Doris". DOH! I had a good breakfast and then went out to the shops to get groceries etc etc etc, raced home mid afternoon, get changed and go for powerwalk, sooooo by the time I got to eat again was 5.30pm. Sunday was great until dinner time, did not feel like preparing anything so I ate 2 pieces of left over homemade pizza and about a cup of icecream!!!! Double Doh! So not to harp on about it, I fessed up, was lectured and now moving on.

Monday absolutely spot perfect!!!!!!! But as a result of the weekend my weight jumped massively according to my scales. Went down yesterday morning to around the right figure, this morning shows me with a good loss!

So going back to my talking to on Thursday - why write and read and tell myself all that, only to throw it out the window. Note to self.....be more vigilant on weekends. Week days are so easy, as i sit at my desk and my alarms and reminders pop up to tell me time to have something, if I am not thinking about it. Weekends i tend to be out and about so much, again i don't Think!!!!

Okay, now to concentrate on rule #1 - Get aggressive with my goals!!! Concentrate on a complete perfect week. So far Monday - perfect - check! Tuesday - perfect - Check! Today off to a good start - check! I have to remember it is all about me. I am the one trying to lose weight for me, not others, become fitter for me. Only I can make this really work, so I need to plan effectively for weekends and manage those actions I need to take to make my goal!

okay enuf for now, will checkin later. have a great day, I know I am!

Ciao!

X:D)

Hello Tara and Antigone, thanks for your comments and looking in on my blog.

PS: This is a shout out for those in Brisbane who want to do a 'park circuit group PT session', instead of the scary 'Bootcamps', go see my blog links and click on Sabine. All details there.